As data sharing between sectors becomes more widespread, it is important for homelessness response systems and providers to consider the ramifications of providing data to law enforcement. This brief provides an overview of existing privacy laws that protect people’s personal information, covers the risks of sharing homelessness data with law enforcement, and offers immediate steps that Continuums of Care (CoCs) and service providers can take to strengthen protections for participants.

This slideck presents an explanation of HUD's System Performance Measures (SPMs) including the kinds of data that impact the SPMs.

This Framework articulates the value and importance of regional data sharing as a way to ensure that the nine Bay Area counties are collaborating effectively to address the systemic issues that face so many of our most vulnerable and disenfranchised residents. A regional approach to homelessness is visionary, practical, and essential to solving homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Purposeful collaborations between the health care and homeless systems of care address the important relationship between health care and housing. This report focuses on the various ways in which the two sectors in California are sharing data with each other to better coordinate and support mutual clients within their communities.